I’m sure I probably caused a few of you who read the feed of j’s scratchpad a little bit of stress over the weekend by not blogging. You might have seen the post about the new platform, but by not receiving any content, you weren’t sure if something was wrong or if I just wasn’t [...]
Inmagic, a library vendor offering several different technology products, has added RSS capabilities to its latest WebPublisher PRO v10, scheduled to be released in a few days. Their press release has more details.
Many of us keep hoping library system vendors will do more with feeds. Here’s one that is.
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Many people have different thoughts about whether reposting someone else’s XML Feed (RSS, Atom) breaks copyright law or a licensing agreement. I’ve spoken about this before, too, (but I’m too lazy to look for that exchange or those exchanges now) and had at least one heated debate via e-mail with someone over this topic.
If someone [...]
When I went to The Boston Globe Web site recently, I noticed a prominent link to some podcasts. I’m not sure how long they’ve been podcasting, but I didn’t notice the link about a week or so ago. They offer several based on the news and their columnists.
(I ended up being unexpectedly offline this past [...]
Mark Frydenberg, a Bentley College professor, told us about his work with podcasting and new technologies during Tuesday’s Berkman Luncheon series. He first started doing his own podcasts of his lectures, but when he realized no one was really using them, he got his students to do the podcasts instead. He’s doing a bit with [...]
The ResourceShelf and Docuticker have new feed URLs (and new looks!).
ResourceShelf: http://www.resourceshelf.com/feed/
DocuTicker: http://www.docuticker.com/?feed=rss2
I went to a really cool event Monday night at the Museum of Science about science news. As part of the event, one of the presenters mentioned the museum’s podcasts. After the event, I had the opportunity to talk to her. She mentioned she was interested in networking with more bloggers, so I told her [...]
Pardon me while I have one of those “Well, duh” mixed with “It’s about time” moments. For fun, I hand coded a podcast feed. Not too bad.
Yeah, I’m definitely the kind of person who learns by doing.
I admit that I cheated. I took a feed from a different podcast and rewrote it. For the real [...]
Jenny, The Shifted Librarian and a member of the RSS Advisory Board, shares her perspective on changing the common orange XML button to a symbol she thinks makes more sense to indicate syndication.
On the Feedster blog, James writes about one of the challenges to using XML feeds is getting people to recognize that they’re actually [...]
Stephen Abram’s column in the March 2006 Information Outlook, the Special Libraries Association’s magazine, is all about podcasting, including a long list of useful links.
Darlene Fichter has an article about using XML feeds on Web sites in April’s issue.
Not only are these two articles restricted to association members, but they require viewers to run ebrary [...]